Re: git-core-arch: Missing dependency
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- Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
- Date
- Nov 12, 2005, 01:26 UTC
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- <20051112012612.GD5856@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
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- <43754083.4090501@zytor.com>
* H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com) wrote:
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> Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> >>Just to be anal;
> >>Requires doesn't usually include the %release,...
> >
> >Obviously both you and Chris (who did the part you are quoting
> >for us) know RPM spec a lot better than I do, and I see two
> >experts contradicting with each other. It could have been just
> >an oversight, or it might have done deliberately --- I cannot
> >judge myself, so I punt here. I'll remove "-%{release}" when I
> >hear Chris says he agrees with you.
>
> You can do it either way. It's a matter of the strictness of the
> binding. If you put %{version} there, then it has to come from the same
> upstream release; for %{version}-%{release} it has to come from the same
> SRPM, i.e. usually from the same build.
>
> In this case I think %{version}-%{release} is appropriate.Yeah, I was being conservative. In reality, the release is rarely bumped, so it's probably not critical either way.
thanks, -chris